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For the therapist. The lawyer. The advisor. The consultant. The coach.

With more work than you can take on, a ceiling you have not broken, and a scaling product you have not yet built.

Twenty years of depth.
Five years of flat.

You've spent two decades getting world-class at your craft. The business around it has been flat for five. You already know the three pains.

  • 01The Sunday night you gave up on writing.
  • 02The referrals that used to be enough.
  • 03The scaling product still on the same slide.

The problem isn't your work. The problem is everything around it.

We fix everything around it. In 30 days. On a stack you own from day one.

There is a pattern every practice that has broken the billable-hour ceiling follows. It is five steps. The arc below is that pattern.

We take two new clients a month. If it's not a fit we'll tell you in the first email. Nobody pays us to guess.

Jan Potgieter, founder of Imperium Growth Partners

Jan Potgieter · Founder, IGP

The operator behind this

You're hiring me. Not an agency.

Twenty years at Imperium Negotiation Solutions — training dealmakers at bp, Hilton, NHS, Pfizer, Vodafone, John Deere, Adidas, LaLiga. Three years inside AI as an operator. I built the first growth engine for my own practice, then for Linda Paige's coaching consultancy. IGP productises that system for other solo professionals.

You get me on the account. No account managers, no agency layer. The operator who designed the system is the operator who runs it.

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Each of the three, in the weight it actually carries

You already know these three. The question is what to do about them.

01

The Sunday night you gave up on writing.

You open a blank document. You know what you know. You have spent twenty years helping people others could not reach.

But what comes out when you try to write it sounds like the agency wrote it. Or worse, it sounds like the three other practitioners they are comparing you with right now.

You close the tab. You tell yourself next week. That was eight months ago. The content gap compounds every week you leave it.

What it costs

The right clients found your competitors this week. They made their decision based on who showed up online, not who was actually better. They will never know the difference. Neither will you.

02

The referrals that used to be enough.

Three years ago the pipeline ran automatically. You never thought about it because you didn't need to. The work found you.

Now you check your phone at 7am to see if anything came in. Some weeks it does. Some weeks ten days pass in silence.

You have tried one agency. Maybe two. You paid for strategy decks, weekly status calls, and branded templates. Nothing moved. You stopped. The gap is still there.

What it costs

A referral-dependent practice is a business you cannot plan, price, or sell. You cannot hire against it. You cannot take a month off without it. When the referrals slow, everything slows. Including you.

03

The scaling product still on the same slide.

You built the slide two years ago. The revenue model. The group format. The intensive you would charge proper money for.

You have refined it maybe six times. Changed the price. Changed the format. Added a case study from someone who said they would buy it.

The slide is not a product. The product never shipped. Every hour you bill is worth exactly the same as the hour before it.

What it costs

The ceiling is not lack of ideas. Every solo professional I have talked to in twenty years has the idea. The ceiling is that the idea never becomes infrastructure. Without the infrastructure, the ceiling does not move.

The fix isn't trying harder on your own.It's building the machine that closes the gap.

That machine is what we build. The five numbers below are what it commits to.

The numbers that matter

What you're actually getting. In five numbers.

20
years

of Imperium negotiation practice behind every IGP engagement

30
days

from kickoff to a fully operational Growth Engine

90
days

to agreed lead volume, or we work free until we hit it

2
clients a month

the ceiling we work to. Taken selectively. Non-fits declined in the first email.

0
account managers

between you and Jan. Direct contact, every decision

Honest scarcity. Not funnel theatre.

Two new clients a month. Taken selectively.

Our 30-Day Go-Live Guarantee depends on this ceiling. When the month fills, we waitlist. The scorecard is the fastest way to find out whether the next open slot is yours.

The insight underneath

AI has turned negotiation into infrastructure.

You have already tried the tools. You know they are not the answer on their own. The problem was never access to AI. The problem is the judgement of what to build, what to rule out, and how to make it hold when the tools underneath it change. That judgement is what three years and two full builds before IGP opened to others actually produces.

Every piece of copy a professional puts in front of a client is a negotiation. Every email. Every headline. Every scorecard question. For twenty years that chain was handled by people. Slowly, inconsistently, expensively.

AI now lets it be built once and run at scale, without losing the quality of the dealmaking at any step. What we build for you carries the quality of a senior negotiator's hand, at a price a solo practice can afford, on a stack you own from day one.

We are operators, not account managers. We run the same stack for Imperium Negotiation Solutions, my own practice, and for Linda Paige, an executive coaching consultancy built on it. Not a case study. A dependency.

The negotiation practice behind IGP has worked with

BP
Hilton
NHS
Pfizer
Vodafone
John Deere
Adidas
LaLiga

The stack, already running for another solo professional

The same stack that underpins IGP runs live for Linda Paige, executive coach and personal stylist. Different audience, same shape. Different voice, built on the same infrastructure.

The offer in one glance

Your reputation deserves a machine behind it.
Built in 30 days. Owned by you from day one.

  • Scaling product designed and launched
  • Positioning trained on your real voice
  • Website, scorecard, content engine, ads
  • Operated by Jan, not an account manager
  • Every piece waits for your approval
  • Every account registered in your name
Underwritten by
90-Day Pipeline
Guarantee
Plus
30-Day Go-Live
Guarantee
Capacity
2 new clients
a month

How we work

The five promises

These sit above every scope list. They are the operating system of the relationship.

  1. 01

    We build it. We run it.

    No account managers in the way. You talk straight to Jan and his team.

  2. 02

    It sounds like you.

    Your content engine is trained on your voice, your stories, your method. Not a generic template.

  3. 03

    Every word is shaped by real dealmaking.

    Twenty years of negotiation practice in every line. We call it negotiation-grade persuasion. You get copy that closes the reader, not copy that decorates the page.

  4. 04

    Nothing goes live without your yes.

    Every piece waits for your review. Your name, your call.

  5. 05

    You own it from day one.

    Your domain. Your ad account. Your email list. Walk away any time and keep it all.

The engagement

Thirty days to live. Compounding thereafter.

Every engagement moves through five phases. Depth varies by tier. Timeline does not.

  1. 01

    Scaling product design

    We architect the product that scales you past billable hours. Group program, workshop, course, retreat, membership. You choose, we shape.

  2. 02

    Positioning

    Who you serve. What you charge. How you differ. Your voice and character, captured in prose.

  3. 03

    Infrastructure

    Website · scorecard · content engine · prospecting agent · ads. One connected machine.

  4. 04

    Launch

    Mass Control framework applied to the scaling product. Soft launch at week four.

  5. 05

    Ongoing operation

    We run the machine. Monthly content. Ads tuned. Reporting. Strategy. You stay in your craft.

What else you could do

Not an agency. Not a freelancer. Not a consultant. Not DIY.

The honest comparison. What your other options are and why we're confident you'll still pick us.

Marketing agency

What they do

Account managers, monthly decks, they hold the keys.

Why we win

We operate your stack directly. No middle layer to fund. You own every account from day one.

Freelancer (copywriter, web dev)

What they do

Deliver tasks. A page here, an email there.

Why we win

We deliver a system that runs. Tasks are the symptom; infrastructure is the fix.

Consultant

What they do

Hand you a strategy deck and a plan to execute.

Why we win

We hand you the running machine. Strategy meets implementation on one invoice.

DIY with SaaS (HubSpot · Kajabi · Squarespace)

What they do

Platforms. You assemble and operate them.

Why we win

You became a practitioner, not a funnel engineer. We assemble and run the stack. You stay in your craft.

DIY with AI tools and YouTube

What they do

Tutorials, courses, a weekend of prompting. Two years of trying. Still no scaling product.

Why we win

We have done the sifting. Three years. Two full builds before we opened this to others. You are not paying for tools. You are paying for the judgement of what to build and what to rule out — and a system architected to survive when the tools underneath it change.

Nothing (word-of-mouth)

What they do

Works until it doesn't. A slow referral year ends the illusion.

Why we win

We make the non-word-of-mouth channel compound. Word-of-mouth still works alongside it.

Agency vs operator

What agencies charge you for that we refuse to.

Agencies do

Bill a percentage of your ad spend

IGP does

You pay Meta directly. We charge for expertise, not media resale.

Agencies do

Mark up third-party software

IGP does

Your SaaS, in your name, at your vendor's price. No tax on tools.

Agencies do

Lock you in with 12-month contracts

IGP does

Three-month minimum for Foundation and Growth Engine. Month-to-month thereafter.

Agencies do

Hold your domain, ad account and list

IGP does

Everything in your name, from day one. Transfer Guarantee writes it into the contract.

90
Days

The guarantee

Your agreed lead volume by day 90. Or we work free on retainer until we hit it.

We agree the number in writing at kickoff, based on your scaling product, ad spend and market. If we miss it, the monthly retainer pauses and we keep operating at our cost until the number lands. Your setup fee covers the build regardless.

Who we build for

Solo professionals who sell a skill, not a product.

  • · Therapists, psychologists, clinicians
  • · Lawyers, financial advisors, accountants
  • · Consultants, coaches, authors
  • · Luxury and boutique property agents
  • · Practices with revenue between $100k and $600k
  • · Technically competent. Time-starved. Tired of agency theatre.

If this isn't you, tell us. We'll decline in the first email.

Clients we will not take.

  • · Anyone asking us to fix five years of neglect in ninety days
  • · Anyone who cannot name their ideal client after two sessions
  • · Anyone whose all-in monthly budget is under $900 — retainer $500, infrastructure $150/mo, Meta ad spend on top
  • · Anyone wanting to "try it for a month first"
  • · E-commerce, B2B SaaS, local services, agencies

Answered

Questions I’d ask if I were you.

Every objection a thoughtful prospect raises, answered directly. If yours isn't here, reply to any email and I'll answer it personally.

Who is Imperium Growth Partners?
Imperium Growth Partners (IGP) is a productised growth consultancy for solo professionals, built by Jan Potgieter. Jan has spent twenty years at Imperium Negotiation Solutions, the parent brand, leading dealmaking training for bp, Hilton, NHS, Pfizer, Vodafone, John Deere, Adidas and LaLiga. IGP is the same dealmaking instinct, re-pointed at the growth engine around a practitioner's craft. Built in Johannesburg. Delivered globally.
Have you done this for a therapist, lawyer, or advisor before?
Not yet. IGP's first pilot client is a clinical psychologist. What we have done: the same system runs live for Imperium Negotiation Solutions (B2B professional services) and Linda Paige Executive Coaching (B2C executive coaching for women 45 to 60). Different audiences, same shape underneath. That's why pilot pricing exists. The first three clients in a new vertical absorb the productisation cost and earn founder-rate access.
Why is IGP cheaper than an established agency?
Two reasons. One, IGP productises what agencies bespoke. We build the same component stack for every client, which compounds the economics. Two, the founder runs the work, with one near-full-time operator alongside him. No multi-layer account structure to fund. Agencies bill you for the hierarchy. We bill you for the work.
What's actually in the 30-day build?
Week 1: kickoff discovery, scaling product design, positioning, voice capture, accounts set up. Week 2: website deployed, scorecard drafted, email platform configured, content engine trained on your recorded voice. Week 3: scorecard live, first content pieces approved, ad creative drafted, Meta configured. Week 4: soft launch. Ads running, first content publishing, scorecard submissions flowing, go-live declared. Fully operational in 30 days. Compounding improvement thereafter.
How much of my time does this actually take?
Fourteen hours total over the four-week build. Week 1: 8 hours (2-hour discovery, voice capture, account setup). Weeks 2 to 4: 2 hours each for approvals. Post-launch: under 2 hours a week for content approvals and one monthly strategy review. Your time on the craft itself doesn't change. This is the whole point.
Will the AI sound like me or like ChatGPT?
Like you, if you do the Week-1 homework. Every IGP client records 90+ minutes of themselves talking through eight prompts. We transcribe, extract signature phrases, recurring stories, beliefs, and voice markers, and build a Voice Profile. The content engine runs against your Voice Profile on every generation. You approve every published piece. The AI never publishes unapproved content.
What's the guarantee?
The 90-Day Pipeline Guarantee: an agreed lead volume by day 90 or we continue operating the engine at zero retainer until we hit it. Volume is agreed in writing at kickoff based on your scaling product, ad spend, and market. If the numbers don't land the retainer carry falls on us, not you. Your setup fee covers the build regardless of outcome.
What if I want to leave?
After the minimum term (3 months Foundation or Growth Engine, 12 months Signature) every engagement rolls to month-to-month with 30 days' notice. Under Track A you revoke our access and keep running. Under Track B the Transfer Guarantee kicks in. A flat migration fee moves infrastructure to accounts in your name, with 30 days of handover support. You are never locked in. No annual renewal traps.

Find out if your practice is ready.

The Growth Readiness Scorecard takes three minutes. You get a personalised report, a clear view of the one gap to close first, and, if you want one, a Statement of Work matched to your answers.

Take the scorecard →

P.S. If this isn't the right time for you, reply to the welcome email and tell me. I'd rather lose a client to honest timing than win one by pushing. Jan.

Not ready for the scorecard?

One monthly note on scaling a solo practice.

Short. Specific. From Jan. On productised services, positioning, and the mechanics of growth infrastructure. No hype.

Imperium Growth Partners · Growth Systems for Solo Professionals